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Poster: Jeff Kaplan Date: Apr 14, 2015 5:22pm
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Hate this new format

i'm happy to pass your comments to the design team as some of your thoughtful comments, criticisms and suggestions are above my pay grade. we value all our contributors and users (all 3 million of them that visit archive.org each day.)

Thanks for your feedback.

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Poster: stbalbach Date: Apr 14, 2015 5:33pm
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Hate this new format

> all 3 million of them that visit archive.org each day

That should be the driving factor. What users are doing and how they use the site. Nevertheless I too prefer numbered pages to scrolling - maybe have option to choose? I also liked it when the search terms were highlited in the search results page to quickly find false positives.

Jeff, this is off topic. I noticed the Beta site is back to using Lucene. Do you know if that is temporary or perm? If temp, any sense of how long before the final switch might occur? It will have a big impact on my work to transition away from Lucene :) Anyway I hope there is a warning so I can prepare, currently have about 10,000 custom search URLs to maintain.

Steve

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Poster: Jeff Kaplan Date: Apr 14, 2015 9:47pm
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Hate this new format

yes, search is currently lucene. we continue to explore other options but i do not have any knowledge as to when there might be a change.

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Poster: stbalbach Date: Apr 15, 2015 2:49pm
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Hate this new format

Ok great. Lucene is fine by me. It's a powerful tool for finding works buried in the millions. But also gives decent results with a basic search.